My Development as a Physical Trainer From the Perspective of In-jury-Preventing Training and Year-Round Physical Development
Vainio, Aki (2023)
Vainio, Aki
2023
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2023120133458
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2023120133458
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The purpose of this thesis was to examine the author's professional development as a physical trainer in the Pelicans U-18 hockey team. The work was a 12-week long process, of which during the eight-week period the author filled a daily diary about his actions. In longer weekly analyses he reflected his actions from perspective of his professional development.
The aim was to examine professional development within the framework of injury-preventing training and year-round development of physical characteristics. The author's goal was to achieve professional development within the framework of the main topics of the thesis, and to find out and show the challenges of professional development as a physical trainer during the regular season in an ice-hockey team.
The introduction of the thesis included a brief description of the author's current work, tasks and work environment. The introduction also included a theoretical knowledge base, which the author used to justify his choices and which the author used to help his professional development. The second part of the work consisted of analysing the initial situation and stakeholders. The second part also included the analysis of the skills needed in coaching within the framework of the topics, as well as the evaluation of the coach's interaction situations in the form of stakeholder groups.
Main part of the work was writing diary entries and weekly analyses during the eight-week follow-up period. The diary entries worked as a supportive source for weekly analyses, in which the coach's weekly professional development was reviewed extensively from the perspective of activities that prevent injuries and activities that support year-round physical development.
In the discussion section of the work, the author came up with conclusions about his own professional development during the work. The conclusions stated that eight weeks to review professional development is a relatively short time but observing one's own work brought up fundamental challenges related to the training process repeatedly during the weeks. Combining off-ice training with ice training and monitoring recovery in a changing weekly rhythm were recurring themes that caused challenges. In author opinion monitoring the recovery requires measures in the future. Author was able to gain professional development when he learned to consider challenging issues in the training process, and practical actions were taken to improve them. Professional development came also on a form of self-confidence trough authors discussions with peer groups during the work and researching the knowledge base since those things highlighted that the content of practice within the framework of this thesis is beneficial in terms of physical development and injury prevention.
The aim was to examine professional development within the framework of injury-preventing training and year-round development of physical characteristics. The author's goal was to achieve professional development within the framework of the main topics of the thesis, and to find out and show the challenges of professional development as a physical trainer during the regular season in an ice-hockey team.
The introduction of the thesis included a brief description of the author's current work, tasks and work environment. The introduction also included a theoretical knowledge base, which the author used to justify his choices and which the author used to help his professional development. The second part of the work consisted of analysing the initial situation and stakeholders. The second part also included the analysis of the skills needed in coaching within the framework of the topics, as well as the evaluation of the coach's interaction situations in the form of stakeholder groups.
Main part of the work was writing diary entries and weekly analyses during the eight-week follow-up period. The diary entries worked as a supportive source for weekly analyses, in which the coach's weekly professional development was reviewed extensively from the perspective of activities that prevent injuries and activities that support year-round physical development.
In the discussion section of the work, the author came up with conclusions about his own professional development during the work. The conclusions stated that eight weeks to review professional development is a relatively short time but observing one's own work brought up fundamental challenges related to the training process repeatedly during the weeks. Combining off-ice training with ice training and monitoring recovery in a changing weekly rhythm were recurring themes that caused challenges. In author opinion monitoring the recovery requires measures in the future. Author was able to gain professional development when he learned to consider challenging issues in the training process, and practical actions were taken to improve them. Professional development came also on a form of self-confidence trough authors discussions with peer groups during the work and researching the knowledge base since those things highlighted that the content of practice within the framework of this thesis is beneficial in terms of physical development and injury prevention.